How's it going guys and gals? Storyus Raccoonus here with chapter 12 of Unexpected feelings.
Harry almost couldn't believe it, he had just been offerred the chance to join one of the greatest teams of criminals ever to come into existance and had taken them up on the offer. The main thing he was thinking about at the moment was how exactly Sly was going to react since drawing the short straw had landed him with the so called 'pleasure' of telling her this little revelation.
Harry hadn't actually told Sly yet because he wanted to wait a little bit and he was currently sitting in the kitchen with Bentley akwardly clicking his tongue and beating his fingers against the table while Murray just finished chugging down a can and crushing it in between both of his hands with little effort earning a small cringe from Harry.
"Don't worry Harry, you'll get used to that after a while in this place. Now I've been meaning to ask you something, what kind of benefits do you think you'll be able to bring to the gang?" Bentley asked curiously while Harry started scratching his chin in thought about which of his talents could make himself useful to the Cooper gang, he was agile but Sly already filled that position and he was strong but they already had someone covering that job for them. Harry spent a few more seconds trying to come up with something when it felt amost as if a light bulb had turned on in his brain and he gave a victorious smile much to the intrest of Bentley Murray and Penelope. The three of them all simultaneously jumped when they saw Harry reach into his pocket and pull out the last thing that any of them were expecting.
"What's wrong? You guys look like you've seen a ghost." Harry said not seeming to realise that they were shocked by the weapon he was holding in his hand. The very weapon was the famous yet out dated gun known as a revolver (AKA a six shooter).
The three of them jumped under the table when Harry started casually swinging the gun around on his finger by the trigger guard while whistling a little tune to himself.
"Would you mind wacthing where you point that thing!?" Penelope said while Harry was given scowls by the other members of the gang.
"Relax guys you can trust me with one of these." Harry replied not seeing any danger.
"And why should we think that exactly?" Bentley asked skeptically waiting for a response.
"Because I'm actually pretty accurate with a gun." Harry said like it was obvious and sighed when he saw that they weren't following him pinching the bridge of his nose.
"Okay, Murray do you still have that can you crushed? (For pretty much no reason.)" Asked Harry as Murray handed him the can and Harry threw it up into the air and pulled the trigger resulting in the common bang noise. When Harry caught it again he tossed it to Bentley who saw that a hole had been made straight thorugh the metal along with smoke rising from where the damage had been done by the bullet.
After that Harry gave a nod and walked into the living room to see if Sly had gotten up to anything and to tell her the news. When the raccon walked into the room he saw that Sly was still sat on the couch along with her foot propped up and he also saw that she was flipping though what seemed to be a photo album.
"Hey Sly, what you doing?"
"Just taking a stroll down memory lane."
"Mind if I join in?" Harry asked while Sly just shrugged.
"I don't see why not."
After being given permission Harry sat down next to her and started looking at the different photos and one of another female raccoon caught his attension and the reason it did was because of how much she resembled Sly.
"Who's this?" Harry asked pointing to the picture.
"That's my mum. She was always one of the people I looked up to the most when I was a kid." Sly said as she started to tear up again and quickly squinted to stop the tears from falling.
"Sorry." Harry said when he realised he had basically reminded Sly of the time she had lost the people dear to her.
"You don't have to apologise for anything."
Harry gave a sigh of relief and a few seconds later made it clear that he was suprised when he saw a picture of what looked like Murray dressed as a german woman punching an ape mercenary in the face.
"Care to tell me what the hell's happening in this one?" Harry asked drawing Sly's attension to the photo.
"Oh that's just from a heist we pulled about a year after the whole Clock-la affair. The taste of that chocolate bar after we got away was worth it and the look on Carmelita's face just made it even better." Sly explained sighing at the memories.
Remebering the picture of Sly's mum Harry decided to have a little joke.
"I see where you got your good looks from."
"What was that?"
"Nothing."
Harry just gave a shrug and suddenly remembered what he had wanted to tell her.
"Um Sly, remember earlier when Bentley took me out of the room to tell me something?" Asked Harry.
"Yeah."
"Well he kind of asked me if I wanted to join the gang and I said yes." Harry said quickly while rubbing the back of his head while Sly seemed to actually look suprise yet happy.
"Oh, okay then that's actually some good news."
Afte that Sly stood up and said bye before leaving the room and after shutting the door he got one question on his mind.
"Out of all the girls in the world why did I have to fall in love with the one I don't stand a chance with?"
I don't care that this says nothing it's really late at the time of this next time guys and gals, Storyus out.
